The variety of models Waterman offered in the 1920s was meant to cover any possible writing need and to meet as many as possible taste requirements. Buyers could choose from a large array of silver, gold filled and solid overlays and a variety of nib grades with more or less flexibility.

Sizes could be modulated on the basis of the size of users' hands, with standard sizes suitable for male, large hands, slender 1/2 sizes suitable for the feminine market and  V, shorter size, for junior writers which could also have 1/2 V models, short and slender.

This Waterman 452 is an example of a very appealing silver filigree overlay on black ebonite on a standard model. The pen is in excellent condition with only some signs of use on the cap top and two initials engraved on the cartouche. 

The nib is flexible, smoothened very pleasant.

It has been recently resacked and it is ready to write.